What happened on July 8 ?

1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)

1545 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (d. 1568)

1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)

1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)

1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)

1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)

1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)

1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)

1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917)

1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1937)

1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)

1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist

1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)

1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)

1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)

1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)

1892 - Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)

1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)

1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician

1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)

1907 - George W. Romney, chairman of the American Motors Corporation (1954-62) (d. 1995)

1908 - Louis Jordan, American singer and saxophonist (d. 1975)

1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)

1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician

1914 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer and bandleader (d. 1993)

1918 - Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)

1919 - Walter Scheel, German politician

1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete

1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)

1932 - Jerry Vale, American singer

1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)

1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer

1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut

1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager

1942 - Phil Gramm, American politician

1947 - Kim Darby, American actress

1948 - Raffi Cavoukian, Armenian children's entertainer

1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian

1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress

1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor

1961 - Toby Keith, American singer

1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor

1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor

1970 - Beck, American singer

1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer

1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress

1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer

1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer

1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer

1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player

1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress

1984 - Alexis Dziena, American actress